Funk
$29.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Rock, Psych
The third LP from Black Market Brass is a new take on afrobeat that combines traditional grooves with heavy, hypnotic, sci-fi sounds that reflect the band's myriad of influences as record collectors across genres. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3779859158/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://blackmarketbrass.bandcamp.com/album/hox">Hox by Black Market Brass</a></iframe>...
$54.99
Funk, Jazz, Soul, Soul & Funk
BBE Music is excited to present the first repress since 2006 of Roy Ayers classic Virgin Ubiquity albums, with brand new sleeve notes by Sean P. When two volumes of previously unreleased Roy Ayers tapes entitled ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ hit the racks courtesy of BBE in 2004/5, it was a little...
$42.99
Funk, Jazz, Soul, Soul & Funk
The late ‘70s were such a creatively fertile period for Roy Ayers and his associates that many of his finest recordings never made it onto the official releases. Ayers kept the master tapes in storage until Peter Adarkwah of BBE Records in London got wind of them, at which point...
$29.99
Best of 2023, Funk, Psych, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
Silver Vinyl. Real people music recorded at a Quaker Boarding school in the mid-'70s. Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, and sunshine soul, Shira Small and her high school music teacher Lars Clutterham created a peerless artifact of outsider magic. Imagination, wonder, the existential dread of Vietnam and math...
$44.99
Third repress of 500 copies of this now-classic compilation of Estonian trumpeter Jaan Kuuman and his Instrumental Ensemble, a record originally released back in 2013. You won't find any funkier jazz on the eastern side of the iron curtain from this period in time. In those days all recorded music...
$39.99
‘Producer Bob Porter brought the Texan guitarist to Prestige in 1970, where he recorded three albums as a leader and over a dozen as a session player, showing himself to be a wizard at playing funky licks and energised solos. When Porter left Prestige to set up Eastbound Records in...
$54.99
Recorded at Audio Video Studios - New York, NY 1956 by Alfred Lion and Rudy Van Gelder. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the Jones brothers Thad, Hank and Elvin on the world of jazz. Between the three of them, their performances can be heard on literally...
$54.99
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio - Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1970. The experimentations taking shape in jazz at the end of the '60s with Miles Davis leading the pack pushed jazz in many new directions. Released six months after Bitches Brew, Electric Byrd shows legendary hard bop Detroit trumpet player Donald...
$54.99
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio - Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1970. The experimentations taking shape in jazz at the end of the '60s with Miles Davis leading the pack pushed jazz in many new directions. Released six months after Bitches Brew, Electric Byrd shows legendary hard bop Detroit trumpet player Donald...
$32.99
The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label. The music had to...
$39.99
Funk, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
"Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973's Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut...
$46.99
Limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on red coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Introducing brings together ten seminal track from Shuggie Otis's core catalog: Here Comes Shuggie Otis (1969), Freedom Flight (1971), and Inspiration Information (1974). Shuggie Otis' three solo releases from the 1970s are now regarded as some of...
$44.99
Some musical nuggets have sometimes difficulties to reach the public at the time of their release, by lack of promotion or, simply, the misfortune of their destiny… That doesn’t prevent them, with time, to take value and to become pearls to be had in one’s discotheque. What Is It,...
$34.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, Indie Rock
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$39.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, Indie Rock
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$34.99
Funk, Hip-Hop, Indie Rock, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$54.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, Indie Rock
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$26.99
Frontier's Edge is the 2023 EP by the fiery, energetic, genre-defying group The Budos Band. Their first release after departing their two-decade-long home of Daptone Records and joining Diamnd West Records — founded by the Budos' own Thomas Brenneck and Jared Tankel — Frontier's Edge finds the group hungry, passionate...
$52.99
In association with DJ Amir's 180 Proof Records, BBE is honored to present another gem from the small-yet-significant Strata catalogue. A precursor to New York's Strata East, Detroit's Strata Records was founded in the late 1960s by former Blue Note artist Kenny Cox. Starting life as a music-led community organization,...
$36.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Rock
The Hunter is one of Ike & Tina’s most blues-oriented albums. It was cut during the blues revival period of the late 1960s. Released just a few years after the epochal Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High, The Hunter boasts several fine blues workouts in the inimitably electrifying Ike and...
$36.99
Celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary with the reissue of the classic genre-busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG, ‘Come Away With ESG’. So the story goes Anthony H hooked up with Ed Bahaman and the band’s debut album, ‘Come Away With ESG’ was created. In the intervening years, it’s...
$36.99
One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr. Shing-a-Ling, and Midnight Creeper. Smith went on to sign...
$18.99
Jazz, Soul & Funk, Funk, World, French
The track PSYCHOSE, unreleased to date, was recorded by CORTEX in 1977, for a film whose film was unfortunately destroyed in a fire.
The original soundtrack, fortunately saved, has recently been found.
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$39.99
After his first album L’obsession, Louis Fontaine is back with Ritmi Moderni, a second album in which he explores all aspects of rhythm and groove, always in a cinematic style. “Ritmi Moderni” is an album inspired by the library music of the sixties and seventies, each track can lead to...
$36.99
Magic Source invites you to a journey to the obscure side of disco music. Led by producer & notorious tape operator Björn Wagner (of Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and Mocambo Records), the group follows up on their rootsy cosmic debut LP Earthrising and last year's EP Riviera...
$39.99
Originally recorded in 1978 Un homme dans l'univers was composed by Janko Nilovic. This album was intended to describe musically the world events, a look at the news in sum. It's the most cinematic album he ever made and it will be repressed by Broc Recordz in 2019 for the...
$44.99
Mr Bongo presents a much anticipated second volume of ‘É Soul Cultura’, curated by the charismatic Manchester based DJ Luke Una. In May 2022, ‘É Soul Cultura’ Vol.1 seemed to land at exactly the right moment. Post-lockdown, optimism was back on the rise and the dance floors swelled again. For...
$39.99
Ebo Taylor “Twer Nyame” is being reissued on vinyl by Comet Records, pressed on high quality vinyl, with label designs and artwork as per the original release. Originally released in 1978 on Philips-West African-Records. Classic highlife sounds; uptempo grooves, vocals, tons of percussion, guitar, horns and organ lines. Featuring the...
$29.99
Fueled by the financial drippings of number runners and boosted by Hall-of-Fame running back Jim Brown, Cleveland, Ohio’s Way Out Records offered asylum for a rising crop of rogue soul men, rust-belt vocal ensembles, and trial-by-fire producers. Helmed by a friendly consortium of hustlers, police officers, and gridiron giants, pet...
$39.99
Three years we told the world about Columbus, Ohio’s secret soul history, Numero returned to the scene of the crime for further exploration. Victim: Clem Price and George Beter’s no-rep custom studio Harmonic Sounds and its Prix imprint. Built around a few stray boxes of demos, including Penny &...
$32.99
The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Gun-toting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the...
$36.99
Black Rhythm Revolution! Is the first solo album from the jazz-funk legend Idris Muhammad, a New Orleans-bred rhythm king who successfully made the leap from the finest soulful jazz records of the ’60s to the nastiest fusion funk of the ’70s. Here we catch him literally on the cusp of...
$44.99
Funk masters The Meters influenced many groups in Soul music, with their as-tight-as-a-metronome grooves, exciting interplay and infectious vocal group shouts. The band released Rejuvenation in 1974, their best album to date. The crystal clear production was an improvement on the band's earlier works, maintaining their stripped down song structures...
$39.99
Funk, Psych, Rock, Soul & Funk
Funkadelic's self-titled debut may have touched upon drug-induced acid rock, but on their 1970 follow-up, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, the band blows the door off its hinges. Look no further than the album-opening ten-minute title track -...
$36.99
Razor-sharp production of the highest order from two of the masters of the early 80’s Rio de Janeiro boogie sound, Robson Jorge and Lincoln Olivetti.
Both were highly acclaimed music producers of the time, starting around the mid-70’s. Over the course of his career Olivetti worked with...
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Freestyle Records are proud to reissue Ambiance II Fusion's mid-80s fusion rarity "Come Touch Tomorrow" - originally recorded in Hollywood CA October/November 1984 and released in 1985. Following a yearly run of 4 albums self-released between 1979 and 1982, Nigerian-born saxophonist, flutist, and clarinettist Daoud Abubakar Balewa then took a...
$36.99
Tropical boogie meets mellow house on Space Ghost’s new album Aquarium Nightclub: An homage to the natural world set against the richly-diverse backdrop of Oakland.. After Space Ghost’s first album Endless Light took to international airwaves and echoed out of cities from London to Los Angeles, his forthcoming release Aquarium...
$44.99
Talk of Japanese soul often refers to enka, the sentimental ballad emanating from downhome bars and karaoke boxes. From the late 1960s, however, reverberations from across the Pacific would lead to the nation’s own take on soul music as we know it in the West. Some of the artists showcased...
$42.99
The popularity of Brazilian music from the 60s, 70s and 80s has experienced quite the renaissance; artists such as Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Arthur Verocai, Joyce et al, have become household names to an international audience passionate about global sounds. However, even for die-hard fans and collectors of Brazilian music...
$44.99
Originally released in 1973, Black Pearl’s overall sound is the epitome of cool, orchestral funk / dramatic styles of the 1970s (e.g. “Next Stop LA”, “Collect”, “Oh! Militia”, “Choctaw”, “Black Pearl”, and “Blue Shadow”). Also featured are several more romantic, laid-back, emotive pieces such as “Miraculous Dream”, “Tryst”, “Sunny Monday”,...
$39.99
Known by genre aficionados as one of the greatest singers and most riveting stage presences in soul music, Jackie Shane has remained largely unknown outside Toronto, where her career briefly flowered in the 1960s. Beyond her unmistakable gift of the gab, Shane is a pioneer of transgender rights, born in...
$42.99
Observations in Time is the 1969 debut album recorded by the Ohio Players and released on the Capitol label. The album was a regional hit in and around the group's home city of Dayton, Ohio....
$36.99
Soul & Funk, Funk, Rock, Psych
With each successive release, Funkadelic was streamlining it's sound, a process culminating in such early '70s classics as Cosmic Slop. The group's acid rock-heavy early work had metamorphosed into straight-up, party hearty funk, with lyrics that alternate between the serious (the title track) and the humorous 'No Compute'. It may...
$36.99
Soul & Funk, Funk, Rock, Psych
Known as the Sheep Album for its unique cover art, Funkadelic's Greatest Hits collection is a stunning selection of highlights from the George Clinton-led group's first six albums. This is a perfect entry point into the world of Funkadelic. Heavyweight vinyl produced by Westbound Records in 2023....
$49.99
These are fighting times, people. We are surrounded by grit, spit, and bloody war, but in the distance moving forward is The Black Angels. Passover, The Black Angels debut album, speaks of real-life horrors, death, and destruction with doses of love, sex, and healing. Don’t lose track, these...
$32.99
Keyboardist and composer Weldon Irvine is among the most celebrated Jazz-Funk artists of all time. He was Nina Simone’s bandleader for years, and wrote the lyrics for her iconic civil rights anthem “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”. Throughout the 1970s, Irvine released a series of seminal albums full of...
$54.99
Gather together beneath the sun as we journey through the rhythmic sands of time, Paul Hillery, an esteemed collector and vinyl hunter, presents his follow-up to the highly acclaimed "We Are The Children Of The Sun." Andrew Male of MOJO Magazine calls the album "One of the most emotionally uplifting...
$52.99
Donald Byrd was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, vocalist, composer and bandleader. In his early career he was one of the few hard bop musicians exploring funk and soul while remaining true to his jazz roots. His 1973 album Street Lady was produced by Larry Mizell and...
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